User manual

Using DownloadHelper

After you installed the DownloadHelper extension, you should see a new icon in your
toolbar.

However, it may happen that this icon does not install automatically or simply disappear.
This is sometimes the case after an update of Firefox or of the extension itself.

If you don't see the icon in the toolbar, you should install it, it's easy: Go to menu
View/Toolbar/Customize and drag the DownloadHelper icon to your toolbar

Using DownloadHelper is simple. Just use your browser to visit video sites, when DownloadHelper
can do something for you, this icon is animated:

It is possible to switch to a colored still
icon through preferences:

When the icon is animated, you can see a small triangle at the right of the icon.
Click on this arrow to open the download menu.
You can now select directly a file to download.

Alternatively, download offers are also available from the context menu:

And the Tools menu:

If you press the CTRL key while selecting a file to download, the actual URL of the file is copied
to the clipboard. You can paste the address to an external download manager if you want to.

When DownloadHelper notice links to image or movies files, moving the mouse over the items may
highlight the corresponding links in the Web page:

Clicking on a particular item starts the download.

By default, the downloads are queued and done one by one. That keeps the bandwith usage to a
minimum and allows you to browse other page to select new downloads. The screenshots below shows
the number of files in the download queue. The number disappears when there is no more download
in progress.

It is also possible to download several video files from YouTube at once, without even
opening the video pages. Just select a region in a YouTube page containing links and right-click to
display the context menu. A new entry offers to download all video files.

Monitoring the download queue

You can access the download queue by right-clicking on the DownloadHelper icon and selecting
Download Queue. If you set the download mode one-by-one (the default), you can see
from this dialog the list of downloads that have not been started yet. This gives you an opportunity
to cancel them before they start.

Using the history

To have access to the history, you first need to enable the feature from the preferences
and visit some video pages. Then, right-click on the DownloadHelper icon and select History.

From the history window, you can quickly see the videos you watched. Double click the history
entry to start viewing the video. You can also go directly to the original page containing the video.

Use the CTRL key to select multiple entries. You can then remove or download them as a whole.

Note: This is a beta feature currently limited to FLV videos and recognized as such
by DownloadHelper.